Archive for October 2021
Two Maligned Bible Women
There are two women in the New Testament who are regularly mis-judged by Christians.
The first is the Samaritan woman with whom Jesus talked at the well. Many Christians assume that she had been divorced five times, but Jesus did not say that. He said only that she had had five husbands. It is just as possible that she had been widowed five times. In fact, given the culture of the day, and particularly the fact tha Read more ...